It doesn’t work that way. They have to apply for membership and go through the standard process. It’s not like they can snap their fingers and become a core member once again, until the next populist leader starts threatening to leave.
I’m pretty sure the EU would welcome the U.K. back - not easily, of course, lots of stuff to negotiate and I should think the EU would ask for guarantees that we would pay into the budgets for the next 25 years, no matter what happens.
I’m sure they’d be happy to let us keep the pound and stay out of Schengen.
But timing matters … first there’s a constitutional debate that the EU would want to settle before letting the U.K. back in and if they move to more qualified majority voting, it might be that the U.K. wouldn’t want to join after all.
The whole “ever closer union” bit seems to have been ignored by Britain, even when they first joined. Did we think those words meant nothing?
Pay in at standard rate no no more Thatcher rebate. But yeah can see Schengen opt out allowed and “join euro” clause written in such a way that it is “desire” or deliberately unmeatable precondition
However think we could move to some Norway or swiss model
Yeah of course we’d have to apply for membership again who said otherwise? The problem with your straw man arguement is you’re the only one making it. Everyone else is off busy having a different conversation which is actually connected in some way with things that have been said.
It doesn’t work that way. They have to apply for membership and go through the standard process. It’s not like they can snap their fingers and become a core member once again, until the next populist leader starts threatening to leave.
No one has said otherwise.
I’m pretty sure the EU would welcome the U.K. back - not easily, of course, lots of stuff to negotiate and I should think the EU would ask for guarantees that we would pay into the budgets for the next 25 years, no matter what happens.
I’m sure they’d be happy to let us keep the pound and stay out of Schengen.
But timing matters … first there’s a constitutional debate that the EU would want to settle before letting the U.K. back in and if they move to more qualified majority voting, it might be that the U.K. wouldn’t want to join after all.
The whole “ever closer union” bit seems to have been ignored by Britain, even when they first joined. Did we think those words meant nothing?
Pay in at standard rate no no more Thatcher rebate. But yeah can see Schengen opt out allowed and “join euro” clause written in such a way that it is “desire” or deliberately unmeatable precondition
However think we could move to some Norway or swiss model
Yeah of course we’d have to apply for membership again who said otherwise? The problem with your straw man arguement is you’re the only one making it. Everyone else is off busy having a different conversation which is actually connected in some way with things that have been said.